Improvement in picker-staff connections in looms



UNITED STATES PATENT` OEEICE.

WARNER WEILAND, OF DEDHAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN PICKER-STAFF CONNECTIONS IN LOIOMS.

Specification` forming part of Letters Patent No. 49,182, (lated August 1, 1865i.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, WARNER WEILAND, of Dedham, in the count-y ofNorfolk and State of Massachusetts, have made a new and useful invention having reference to the Picker-Staff of a Loom; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a front view; Fig. 2, a vertical section; and Fig. 3, a transverse or horizontal section of a picker-staff and its carrier, as provided with my invention.

The purpose of the improvement is to hold the picker-staff firmly to its carrier, and prevent the statl from being split by its connections With the carrier when in use, an accident which is of frequent occurrence with pickern staves as usually fixed to their carriers.

In carrying ont my invention, I form a carrier,A, with a tubular socket, a, and with bear ings b c, so applied to such socket that the pin d, on which the picker-staiitl or its carrier is supported and plays when in use, may pass through such bearings and socket, and also go through the sta", when extending through such socket in the manner as shown in tliedra\vings,where in the stanc is represented at B. The socket is open at both ends, and is bored to receive a"` bolt or pin, d, which, passing through it and also through a correspondingbore in the sta", secures the latter irmly in its position in the socket. By this construction ofthe socket, the pin d aids in holding the statip in place Within the socket, and the socket holds the staff so` 

